Freedom’s Award-Winning Prophet
June 8, 2009
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, winner of ForeWord’s Book of the Year Gold Award for Biography, was recently the subject of a… READ MORE
Category: History
Open Veins on Democracy NOW: Galeano in America
June 2, 2009
NYUPress is proud to publish and distribute Open Veins of Latin America, the book Hugo Chavez gave to President Obama in April. Uruguayan Aauthor Eduardo GaleanoGaleano was in the United… READ MORE
“Any person who is in any way deformed shall not expose himself to public view.”
May 27, 2009
Chronicle Weekly wrote up a brief tale from Susan Schweik’s The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. Excerpt below, full story here. On patrol in Omaha in 1974, a police officer… READ MORE
Two Takes on Remembering the Holocaust in America
May 4, 2009
Hasia Diner’s new book, We Remember with Reverence and Love, has been stirring up a lot of talk in the media recently. You can head over to The Chronicle of… READ MORE
Ask Your Burning Questions About Brooklyn Poetry
April 28, 2009
@The New York Times: This week, Michael Tyrell, co-editor of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU Press, 2007), will be answering readers’ questions about the history of Brooklyn’s literary landscape,… READ MORE
A City Without its Section
April 24, 2009
This week, the New York Observer took an extensive look at the soon-to-be-closed City Section of the New York Times. Prominently featured was the section’s final editor, Constance Rosenblum, author… READ MORE
A Contrast In Eras: Holocaust Remembrances, Post-War And Early Twenty-First Century
April 20, 2009
As it has done since 1982, the United States Congress has officially designated a week to remember the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. For 2009 lawmakers marked off April 19… READ MORE
Which Would You Prefer, Foundlings or the Orphan Train?
April 9, 2009
As NYC prepares to mark 140 years of New York Foundling, one of the nation’s oldest child-welfare agencies, the AP interviewed our author, Julie Miller, for an article in USA… READ MORE